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Brněnská stopa v Tibetu : Filmy a cestovní deníky Vladimíra Síse a Josefa Vaniše
| Title in English | The Brno Trail in Tibet : Films and travel diaries of Vladimír Sís and Josef Vaniš |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Requested lectures |
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| Description | In 2024, seventy years will have passed since the first visit of Czechoslovaks to Tibet. Vladimír Sís and Josef Vaniš, natives of Brno, were the first "Czechs" to visit Lhasa and they brought several testimonies about it. The film director Sís and the cameraman Vaniš worked in the People's Republic of China as army filmmakers and in cooperation with their Chinese colleagues made an hour-long colour documentary The Road Leads to Tibet. The film premiered in 1956 and was narrated by the well-known Brno actor Karel Höger. In 2022, researchers Kamila Hladíková, Luboš Bělka and Martin Špirk, in cooperation with experts from the Military Historical Institute, discovered a world unique - a Chinese version of this film, which is different from the Czechoslovak version. The question of why this was so and why our version was unacceptable to the Chinese filmmakers will be answered by religious scholar Luboš Bělka, who will present the previously unpublished travel diaries of the travellers Sís and Vaniš. The diaries reveal the real background of the making of the film, showing how our and Chinese approaches to the documentary film about the building of the Yangtze-Lhasa Highway differed. The film also depicts a meeting with the then nineteen-year-old 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. |
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